Mitchell Zuckoff - Ponzi's Scheme: True Story of a Financial Legend
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Before Charles Ponzi (1882-1949) sailed from Italy to the shores of America in 1903, his father assured him that the streets were really paved with gold and that Ponzi would be able to get a piece.
Mitchell Zuckoff, Professor of Journalism at Boston University and former reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist for the Boston Globe, observes in his engaging and fast-paced biography, Ponzi learned
as s...
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Before Charles Ponzi (1882-1949) sailed from Italy to the shores of America in 1903, his father assured him that the streets were really paved with gold and that Ponzi would be able to get a piece.
Mitchell Zuckoff, Professor of Journalism at Boston University and former reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist for the Boston Globe, observes in his engaging and fast-paced biography, Ponzi learned
as soon as he disembarked that though the streets were often cobblestone, he could still make a fortune in a culture caught in the throes of the Gilded Age. Learn about Ponzi's mercurial rise and
fall as he conjured up one get-rich-quick scheme after another. Zuckoff reveals how the Boston Post uncovered this "robbing Peter to pay Paul" system (as it was then known), and how Ponzi's life
unraveled. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection lectures.
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Wed December 17 2008
Before Charles Ponzi (1882-1949) sailed from Italy to the shores of America in 1903, his father assured him that the streets were really paved with go...
read more
Before Charles Ponzi (1882-1949) sailed from Italy to the shores of America in 1903, his father assured him that the streets were really paved with gold and that Ponzi would be able to get a piece.
Mitchell Zuckoff, Professor of Journalism at Boston University and former reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist for the Boston Globe, observes in his engaging and fast-paced biography, Ponzi learned
as s...
read more
Before Charles Ponzi (1882-1949) sailed from Italy to the shores of America in 1903, his father assured him that the streets were really paved with gold and that Ponzi would be able to get a piece.
Mitchell Zuckoff, Professor of Journalism at Boston University and former reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist for the Boston Globe, observes in his engaging and fast-paced biography, Ponzi learned
as soon as he disembarked that though the streets were often cobblestone, he could still make a fortune in a culture caught in the throes of the Gilded Age. Learn about Ponzi's mercurial rise and
fall as he conjured up one get-rich-quick scheme after another. Zuckoff reveals how the Boston Post uncovered this "robbing Peter to pay Paul" system (as it was then known), and how Ponzi's life
unraveled. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection lectures.
read less
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water, the eponymous Poland Spring. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection lectures.
Poland Spring resort in Maine was a tourist mecca in the late 19th century. David L. Richards chronicles the rise of Victorian summer hotel culture and one of the most enduring brands of mineral
water, the eponymous Poland Spring. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection lectures.
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James M. McPherson, one of America's pre-eminent Civil War historians returns to the Atlanta History Center to discuss his latest book, This Mighty Scourge, a collection of absorbing and insightful
essays about one of the defining moments in our nation's history. This Mighty Scourge covers the broad spectrum of Civil War events, from an average soldier's love of newspapers to the postwar
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Governor and Mrs. Deval Patrick the Kennedy's, and the Dukakis's celebrate the publication of a new book of the letters of John and Abigail Adams. This is the first collection of their letters
selected from the entire forty years span of their correspondence (which coincides with the an important period in American history) and includes several letters never before published. Visit us at
www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection lectures.
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